English noun: spruce bark beetle | |||
1. | spruce bark beetle (animal) small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree | ||
Samples | The spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests. | ||
Synonyms | Dendroctonus rufipennis | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bark beetle | ||
Member meronym | Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus | ||